Weekly Highlights: 03/25/2014

Cherry Blossoms and Opening Day

Baseballís opening day is around the corner. Since it
is the 100th anniversary of the opening of Wrigley Field in Chicago,
it seems appropriate to highlight the Cubs. Catcher Jimmy Archerís
official baseball card in 1908 appears here:

Todayís Washington weather
makes it still more astonishing that the Washington Cherry Blossom Festival is
around the corner. The images and information that follows comes from Today in History at the Library of Congress (LOC.gov): http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar27.html

View
of Washington Monument, Cherry Blossoms and Tidal Basin
Theodor Horydczak, photographer, circa 1920-1950.
On March 27,
1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the
Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of
the Potomac River Tidal
Basin in Washington, D.C. The event celebrated the Japanese government's
gift of 3,000 trees to the United States. Trees were planted along the Potomac
Tidal Basin near the site of the future Jefferson
Memorial, in East Potomac Park, and on the White House grounds.

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